Good morning, We are reviewing the attempted spam sign-ups we've rejected this month and blocking the throwaway email domains. If we see a pattern of IP stuffs, we'll probably block those too. ---- With this new wave of attempted spammy sign ups, we again revisit our opinion that OPEN REGISTRATION HARMS THE FEDIVERSE. Okie, look. We are a small instance, but we get between 10 and 20 failed bot sign-ups a week. If we were open registration, that would be 10-20 spam / bot accounts every single week that would be filling the fedi with trash. Now like... scale that up. Big instance? Bigger probs. We guess maybe u have enough mods to clean them out but in the meantime, while they are active... timelines are filled with trash. We all know big tech wants to control or kill the fedi. So why are we making it easier for them? You can do better. You SHOULD do better. Please. Do better. #fedi #fediverse #FediAdmin #FediMod #FediModerators